Employees work in a ferro-nickel smelter owned by Indonesia’s state miner in the southeast province of Sulawesi. The country has banned raw material exports, a move which could produce global nickel shortages in 2015.(YUSUF AHMAD/REUTERS)

Royal Nickel CEO moves to Anglo American

RACHELLE YOUNGLAI

— The Globe and Mail

Published Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 3:05PM EST

Last updated Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 3:05PM EST

The former Inco executives who are running Royal Nickel Corp. are losing one of their own, as the junior miner’s chief executive officer departs for a top job at one of the world’s largest mining companies, Anglo American.

Royal Nickel CEO Tyler Mitchelson, who worked for years at giant Canadian nickel miner Inco, has been recruited to help Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani improve the company’s mining operations.